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Khairullah Khairkhwa
File:Khirullah Khairkhwa.jpg
Born Template:Birth-date and age
Kandahar
Citizenship Afghanistan

Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa is a Taliban official and former governor of Herat, he is currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] American intelligence analysts estimate that Khairkhwa was born in 1967, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Press reports have referred to him as "Mullah" and "Maulavi", two different honorifics for referring to senior Muslim clerics.[2][3][4][5][6]

Khirullah held various government posts, both before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, including a police official in Kabul, and finally, Governor of Herat Province.[2][7] Some reports have said he had been the Taliban's deputy minister of the interior, interim minister of the interior, the minister of the interior, and the Minister of Information.[3][5] Khirullah was also to serve as the Taliban's Minister of Foreign Affairs spokesman, giving interviews to the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Voice of America.

Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa arrived at Guantanamo on May 1, 2002, and has been held there for Template:For year month day.[8][9][10]

In early 2011 president Hamid Karzai demanded his release and Hekmat Karzai, the director of the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies in Kabul said "His release will be influential to the peace process," and that "Mr Khairkhwa is well respected amongst the Taliban and was considered a moderate by those who knew him,"[11][12]

Release negotiations

M K Bhadrakumar (2012-01-10). "There's more to peace than Taliban". Asia Times. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/NA12Df01.html. Retrieved 2012-01-11. "Nevertheless, Iranian media insist that three high-ranking Taliban leaders have been released - Mullah Khairkhawa, former interior minister; Mullah Noorullah Noori, a former governor; and Mullah Fazl Akhund, the Taliban's chief of army staff - in exchange for an American soldier held by the Taliban."  mirror </ref> Throughout the fall of 2011 and the winter of 2012 the United States conducted peace negotiations with the Taliban, and widely leaked was that a key sticking point was the ongoing detention of Khairkhwa and four other senior Taliban, Norullah Noori, Mohammed Fazl, Abdul Haq Wasiq and [[]].[13][14][15] Negotiations hinged around sending the five men directly to Doha, Qatar, where they would be allowed to set up an official office for the Taliban.

In March 2012 it was reported that Ibrahim Spinzada, described as "Karzai's top aide" had spoken with the five men, in Guantanamo, earlier that month, and had secured their agreement to be transferred to Qatar.[15] It was reported that Karzai, who had initially opposed the transfer, now backed the plan. It was reported that US officials stated the Obama administration had not yet agreed to transfer the five men.

References

  1. ↑ "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006". United States Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf. Retrieved 2006-05-15. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Taliban blames foes of killing mine-clearers". Independent Online. 2000-08-07. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=116&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw965634540501B212. "The Taliban Governor in the province, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa, has blamed the opposition Northern Alliance for the attack, saying the assailants have been arrested. The oppositions reaction was not immediately available." 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Letta Tayler (2002-01-01). "Jewish men share faith, hatred in Kabul". Chicago Tribune: p. 4. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/97462841.html?dids=97462841:97462841&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+31,+2001&author=Letta+Tayler.+STAFF+CORRESPONDENT&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Blood+Feud+in+Afghanistan+/+Bitter+rift+over+Torah+divides+Kabul's+two+remaining+Jews&pqatl=google. 
  4. ↑ "Afghanistan's Taliban, opposition both claim gains". CNN. 1997-07-31. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9707/31/afghanistan/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kaswar Klasra (2010-01-26). "UN seeks to drop some Taliban leaders". The Nation (Pakistan). http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/26-Jan-2010/UN-seeks-to-drop-some-Taliban-leaders. 
  6. ↑ "Eight dead in Afghan blast". BBC News. 2001-05-04. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1312986.stm. 
  7. ↑ "Red Cross: Families ID detainees in list". USA Today. 2006-04-20. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-20-gitmo-detainees_x.htm. 
  8. ↑ JTF-GTMO (2007-03-16). "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". Department of Defense. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/measurements/. Retrieved 2008-12-22.  mirror
  9. ↑ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)". Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhumanrights.ucdavis.edu%2Fresources%2Flibrary%2Fdocuments-and-reports%2Fgtmo_heightsweights.pdf&date=2009-12-21. 
  10. ↑ Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa". New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/579-khirullah-said-wali-khairkhwa. Retrieved 2010-03-30. 
  11. ↑ Nordland, Rod (2011-02-08). "Karzai Calls for Release of Taliban Official From Guantánamo". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/world/asia/09afghan.html. 
  12. ↑ "Rebranding the Taliban". Al Jazeera. 2011-03-14. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/2011314162928307158.html. Retrieved 2012-03-12. "On March 28, the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, will hear a case on behalf of Khairullah Khairkhwa, a former high-ranking Taliban official who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for the past eight years."  mirror
  13. ↑ "Guantanamo Taliban inmates 'agree to Qatar transfer'". BBC News. 2012-03-10. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17327440. Retrieved 2012-03-12. "If the president pursues this strategy, though, he will need support from wary politicians in Congress, our correspondent says. Many there see a transfer of what they call the most dangerous inmates at Guantanamo as a step too far, he adds."  mirror
  14. ↑ Rahim Faiez, Anne Gearan (2012-03-12). "Taliban prisoners at Guantánamo OK transfer". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/10/2688491/taliban-prisoners-at-guantanamo.html. Retrieved 2012-03-12. "Five top Taliban leaders held by the U.S. in the Guantánamo Bay military prison told a visiting Afghan delegation they agree to a proposed transfer to the tiny Gulf state of Qatar, opening the door for a possible move aimed at bringing the Taliban into peace talks, Afghan officials said Saturday."  mirror
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Hamid Shalizi (2012-03-10). "Taliban Guantanamo detainees agree to Qatar transfer - official". Reuters. http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/03/10/afghanistan-guantanamo-taliban-idINDEE82905620120310. Retrieved 2012-03-12. "Karzai's top aide, Ibrahim Spinzada, visited the Guantanamo facility this week to secure approval from the five Taliban prisoners to be moved to Qatar."  mirror

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